bridge Prize Poems." In all these successive reprints "ravish'd sense"[1] is misprinted "lavish'd sense"; the correct reading is only to be found in the first edition, as it appeared in the Prolusiones. The poem was never reprinted by the author; but three or four scattered lines of it appear in the "Ode to Memory" (1830) and in "The Lover's Tale" (1833).
Arthur Hallam was one of the unsuccessful competitors for this prize. His poem, written in the terza rima of Dante, was privately printed, both as a separate pamphlet and in his "Remains in Verse and Prose" (1834).
Thackeray, then also at Trinity, ridiculed the choice of subject, and produced a short mock or burlesque "Timbuctoo," in his college jeu d'esprit, entitled "The Snob" (Cambridge, 1829).
The Athenæum journal (at that early period of a long and distinguished career edited by its two joint proprietors, John Sterling and Frederick Denison Maurice) had the courage and the foresight to sound a trumpet-note of praise, heralding the advent of a new poet, and prophesying, with no uncertain voice, the future greatness of the author of the successful poem.
In the previous year (1828), Frederick Tennyson, the eldest of the seven brothers, had gained the prize for a Greek poem on Egypt, printed in the collection of Greek and Latin Prize Poems. There is a sonnet- ↑ Line 9 of p. 12 (original edition).
